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Oh they would’ve celebrated him for it.

They definitely would have, but I don't think it's on religious grounds, just political ones.

"You don't make peace with your allies, you make it with your enemies!!"

"How can you negotiate if you don't talk to them!!"

"He's standing up to them and showing them American values!!!"

"HE BRAVELY FACED DOWN THE TALIBAN LEADERSHIP!!!!!"

It's all just spin, you can do it for anything. He could buy them all F-150s and take them out for cocaine and hookers and the talking heads would find a way to call him courageous.

It's the acronym for a particular county jail. So they mystery the state doesn't want to answer is how did she get pregnant in a women's correctional facility.

I'm pretty tired of her drunk Sherlock Holmes bit that they like to hammer into every episode.

"Hi!"

"Listen shitfuck, that mark on your finger says you're married but you're trying to pick me up in the street so you can put your three inch dick in my ass and feel like a man for the five minutes I'm not looking in your eyes and seeing how fucking pathetic you are. Why don't you go home to your two kids and teach them to be fucking accountants or whatever boring shit job leads a grown man to wear khakis and not have to be at work at 3 in the afternoon and leave me the fuck alone."

"Ma'am, this is a Wendys."

you don't need to shoehorn in every single thing we know about Han

You really summed up the flaw of the movie with just one sentence. It was otherwise a pretty good heist/crime movie. Shifting loyalties, hidden agendas, mysterious antagonists and benefactors, a dame who's playing both sides. It's a Dashiell Hammett book turned into a movie, and a nice thing about Sam Spade is you don't have to know his origin story.

And I agree with you, I'm disappointed there aren't more stories building on Solo. I think there's real potential there.

Goddamn, I'm so open to being bribed. I just don't have anything anyone wants.

There was a story a long time ago about how the CIA started a small business somewhere in Eastern Europe and ironically the business itself became so successful that it was a pain in the ass to manage, and they had to decide whether to shut it down or sell it off. I'm really fuzzy on the details now that I try to write it out.

"The stars at night, are big and bright..."

It still cracks me up the way they used Cena in the Fast and Furious movies, just draining away all the charisma and enthusiasm, making him another stone-faced villain-turned-ally. It was a real sign that franchise was losing momentum.

They clearly didn't want a repeat of Dwayne Johnson stealing the spotlight and overshadowing the cast so they hired his replacement and made sure he was bland and unremarkable. And then Cena in so many other projects really breaks out and takes risks and reminds people he's so versatile and so watchable.

He wants the court to reconsider Griswold, Lawrence v. Texas and Obergefell, too. And Thomas and Scalia both opposed the decision to reject Kim Davis' appeal. They're telling us what they want in very plain language.

if they go after mixed marriages eventually

I don't think they'll go after mixed marriages at a federal level, but I could certainly see them changing the law so that a person, or a city, or even a state, would be exempt from performing, certifying, or legally acknowledging any kind of marriage if they have a "well-founded belief."

So they're not banning gay marriage, or banning mixed marriages, or banning immigration through marriage, or banning divorce, etc, they're just not going to force those poor civil servants to participate, and they're not going to force a state to treat them as legal.

And then it's just a short step to, "why can't communities decide for themselves which students go to which schools?", and pretty soon there's just no more federal law.

The events are out on by his PACs which are heavily regulated pools of money

The fact that it's a PAC actually makes it harder to successfully win a judgement and collect. The PAC will ignore the suit until after the election, after which it will disperse the money collected and dissolve itself. It can even just give the money to another PAC. At the end of the lawsuit it's unlikely there will be a single entity left with a dollar that can be collected.

I like Rosemary Harris as an actor, but it was never clear why teenage Peter had an aunt that was like 75 years old.

My heart still belongs to Marisa though, even if her character was paper-thin for a couple of movies.

Who are the top 5 best rappers of all time? I’ll tell you. Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, and Dylan. Because I spit hot fire!

A Top Gear/Grand Tour rewatch podcast with the three of them complaining and telling stories about each episode would break my brain.

The funny thing about Cruz is he does everything you should do to be an effective speaker, to a rehearsed degree. Speaks well and clearly, addresses the crowd with eye contact, has great control of his voice, knows when to pause to let a point sink in, mixes facts and statistics with emotional content, etc. He makes a point, supports it with facts (as he sees them), leads you to a conclusion. His problem is he's such a smarmy, hateful, hatable person who comes off as disingenuous at every turn.

I never tip, but I don't consider myself greedy.

Tipping, like any other social norm, has to be viewed within the context of the society you're in.

In the case of Mr Pink in the movie, he's in New York, where tipping is expected. The prices on the menu are competitively low with the expectation that you'll tip your server. If tipping were removed the servers would have to make more, and menu prices would have to go up, putting that restaurant at a disadvantage compared to others in that area.

Not tipping in a culture that doesn't tip, or if it's understood to be optional, doesn't make you greedy. The last time I travelled to France most of the time there just wasn't an option on the debit machine to leave a tip. It wasn't expected. Back in the US they've started adding tip options when you pick up fast food, which seems absurd.

Tipping isn't a moral absolute, but relies on context, is what I think I'm saying. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

The fence almost certainly is built on city-owned land, and screens more homes than just Curry's. It would be on the city to modify or maintain, and the city would likely work something out with the builder of the new units, especially since those new units would be at a premium price due to their proximity to other famous and high net-worth homeowners. And frankly Curry is paying for the modifications through property taxes.

Yes, that's exactly how it works. And every administration that controls both the White House and the Senate rams through as many judges as humanly possible, with the Senate basically rubber stamping any appointments in order to get as many through as possible. Trump appointed the most judges in history, and that total was surpassed by Biden. It's a race to control the judiciary. When the White House and Senate are controlled by opposite parties most of the available seats sit vacant, with neither party willing to concede control, and then when one party controls both there's a ton of vacancies to fill. Each party sees the huge and lasting opportunity to shape the direction of the country by securing both the White House and Senate, and they largely lock down any progress hoping they'll have the next opportunity.